Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor. These processes include natural selection, common descent, and speciation. 

The discipline emerged through what Julian Huxley called the modern synthesis (of the 1930s) of understanding from several previously unrelated fields of biological research, including genetics, ecology, systematics and paleontology. 

Current research has widened to cover the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution including sexual selection, genetic drift and biogeography. The newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryonic development is controlled, thus creating a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis. 

Evolution is the central unifying concept in biology. Biology can be divided in various ways. One way is by the level of biological organisation, from molecular to cell, organism to population. An earlier way is by perceived taxonomic group, with fields such as zoology, botany, and microbiology, reflecting what were once seen as the major divisions of life. A third way is by approach, such as field biology, theoretical biology, experimental evolution, and paleontology. These alternative ways of dividing up the subject can be combined with evolutionary biology to create subfields like evolutionary ecology and evolutionary developmental biology.

1. What is a unifying concept?
2. Of what science?
3. Can it be split up into different ways?
4. Name one?
5. Can you provide an example?
6. And another example, please?
7. Is there another type of grouping?
8. And it is?
9. Example, please
10. And another?
11. Any more?
12. What are these known as?
13. Is there a third way to divide the science?
14. What is that?
15. How many examples can you provide?
16. Who helped develop the synthesis?
17. When?
18. Were the fields related?
19. What is the new field called?
20. And the abbreviated form is?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. evolution
2. biology
3. yes
4. level of biological organization
5. from molecular to cell
6. organism to population
7. yes
8. perceived taxonomic group
9. zoology
10. botany
11. microbiology
12. major divisions of life
13. yes
14. by approach
15. Four
16. Julian Huxley
17. 1930s
18. no
19. Evolutionary biology
20. evo-devo

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

On the third day of November, Ron and Pam went to the store. They wanted to get some food for a new recipe. It was late in the afternoon, but they wanted to eat the food soon at dinner. To save time they split the list in half. Ron was to get the pasta and tomato sauce, and Pam was to get the vegetables and juice. They went their separate ways in the store, and made plans to meet in the checkout line in half an hour. 

On her way to the fruit and vegetable section, Pam ran into her friend Tom. Tom had bought a pet bunny for his friend and wanted to buy it some food. He asked Pam what he needs to feed the bunny. Pam told him lettuce and carrots, so he put 5 heads of lettuce in his basket along with one bag of carrots. Tom said goodbye to Pam and went to the front of the store to buy his vegetables. Now it was time for Pam to pick out the vegetables she would buy for dinner. She wanted to make a salad, so she bought spinach, 2 big red tomatoes, a box of mushrooms, and 3 cucumbers. Pam then went to where they kept the juice and grabbed a big bottle of lemonade. 

Pam went to the front of the store and met Ron. They handed their items to the sales clerk so that they could buy them. The total cost of the food was 20 dollars. As a gift to Pam, Ron paid for the food and said happy birthday. As a gift he would be cooking her dinner.

1. what day did Ron and Pam go to the store?
2. was it late in the afternoon?
3. what did they want to do soon?
4. to save time, how did they divide the list?
5. where were they supposed to meet?
6. who did Pam run into?
7. what was he getting for his friend's bunny?
8. did Pam know what type of food?
9. how many heads of lettuce did Tom get?
10. and how many bags of carrots?
11. What did Pam want to make?
12. how many cucumbers did she get for it?
13. did she get anything else?
14. who did she go to the front of the store to meet?
15. how much did they hand the clerk?
16. who paid
17. was it Pam's birthday?
18. what would be Ron's gift to Pam?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the third day of November
2. yes
3. eat the food soon at dinner.
4. they split the list in half
5. the checkout line
6. her friend Tom
7. food.
8. yes
9. Five
10. one
11. a salad
12. Three
13. lemonade
14. Ron
15. 20 dollars
16. Ron
17. yes
18. cooking her dinner.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Eric and Doris King Turner are packing their bags for New Zealand. They're busy deciding what to pack and what to leave behind in Britain and are making plans to extend their new home in Nelson. Doris is looking forward to getting the garden into shape and Eric has his heart set on a spot of fly fishing. The difference is that Eric is 102, Doris is 87. Eric thinks he's Britain's oldest _ 

In January next year Eric King Turner and his wife of 12 years will wave goodbye to their neighbors, and set sail from Southampton on the voyage of a lifetime. The ocean liner Saga Rose will take six weeks to get to Auckland and the couple are expecting a red-carpet welcome from family. 

Doris was born in New Zealand but gave up her homeland when the couple met and married in the late 1990s. But New Zealand is close to both their hearts and the attraction of family and friends, and the good fishing helped to persuade them to move. 

Doris, who has five children and nine grandchildren, supported her husband's application to settle in New Zealand. The paperwork took five months. Eric says, "We not only had to produce a marriage certificate but we had to produce evidence that we were in a long and stable relationship!" He also said he was not asked about his age but had to show that he could support himself financially in New Zealand. 

"I like New Zealand. The way of life is very much the same as it is here but it is not so crowded." His wife has always been "a little bit homesick" but has never complained. Now the couple are in the middle of the task of sorting out possessions and selling their flat.

1. What are the names of the couple in the story?
2. Where are they heading to live?
3. Where are they currently living?
4. What are they expecting from their family?
5. How long have they been married for?
6. What are their ages?
7. How many children do they have?
8. From the both of them, who was born in New Zealand?
9. How long did the paperwork take?
10. How many grandchildren do they have?
11. Were they asked for an evidence to prove that they're in a stable relationship?
12. Was Eric asked his age?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Eric and Doris King Turner
2. Nelson
3. Britain
4. a red-carpet welcome
5. next year, 12 years
6. Eric is 102, Doris is 87
7. Five
8. Doris
9. five months
10. Nine
11. yes
12. no